Re: OT:Thanksgiving

On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:03:42 +1300, "Pete Dashwood"
<dashwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I find this staggering. How can Democracy work when every State is allowed
to interpret who can and cannot vote?

I'm not convinced that having national standards that are less than
universal would make Democracy work better. States define which of
their crimes are felonies, for instance.

I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the Constitution had
instituted representation based upon voters rather than heads. States
would have been motivated to enfranchise more people earlier to gain
more power.
.

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